Is someone trying to one-up Lady Gaga?

Nicki Minaj stepped out in a bright red Versace nun’s habit with “The Pope” on her arm at the 2012 Grammy Awards held at Staples Center in LA, on Sunday evening.

The 29-year-old rapper looks like a spooky version of Little Red Riding hood in the custom couture creation, which features Versace's trademark emblem on the front of the dress.

You gotta have faith!

Despite Whitney Houston's death just hours before her mentor Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy celebration -- in the very same hotel where the singer's body was found -- the party went on as planned.

Celebs came out for what was supposed to be one of the best parties of the year, but the evening turned into a memorial for host Davis' most successful recording act ever -- Whitney Houston.

Britney Spears and Kim Kardashian were on hand, along with Alicia Keys, Tom Hanks, Jennifer Hudson, Diana Ross, Brandy, Mary J. Blige and others, to remember the life of the 48-year-old superstar.

Davis led a moment of silence a the beginning of the evening and a source inside the party tells us: "The mood was somber. No one was 'celebrating' -- the evening became a tribute to Whitney Houston. Guests were hugging and crying."

X17 has one of the only photos of Whitney Houston's body as it was taken from the Beverly Hilton hotel to the Los Angeles County coroner's office last night around midnight.

The coroner has completed an autopsy, according to a TMZ report; but results may not be released for another 4 - 6 weeks.

For now, the cause of death is unknown, but reports claim Houston was found underwater in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton hotel room just before 3:30pm Saturday. Emergency services responded in 20 minutes and made multiple attempts to revive the singer, without success. Houston was pronounced dead at 3:55pm.

Multiple reports claim Houston was acting strangely in hours and even days before her death. She did an impromptu performance at Tru nightclub Tuesday night (X17online has the video here).

Whitney turned up to rehearsals for Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party "disheveled in mismatched clothes," according to the LA Times -- her hair wet with sweat. "The singer smelled of alcohol and cigarettes" and "displayed erratic behavior" by "flailing her hands" while speaking to singers Monica and Brandy, according to the report.

A source tells People, Houston was "twitching her nose constantly" and ranting to Monica about what she was to wear to the annual event. "I don't wear no blue. I don't want no goddamn blue," she reportedly said.

Tuesday night at Tru, Houston fought with singer Stacy Francis after the less-famous performer failed to recognize Whitney, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Check out our video of the scene at the Beverly Hilton Saturday at midnight ...

As Alicia Keys prepared to enter the Beverly Hilton Saturday night -- just hours after Whitney Houston was found dead in her 4th-floor room at the hotel -- she stopped for a long embrace with her mentor Clive Davis.

Davis made the decision not to cancel his annual pre-Grammy party, despite Houston's passing -- but the mood of the event quickly shifted after news of the singer's death spread.

Clive Davis discovered Alicia Keys and set her on the path to winning five Grammys in 2002. Keys often compared the young star to his original protege, Whitney.

At the beginning of the evening, Davis read from a paper, to the crowd: ""I am personally devastated by the loss of someone who has meant so much to me. She was full of life, looking forward for tonight. She loved music and she loved this night that celebrated music. Whitney was a beautiful person and she had a talent beyond compare. She graced this stage ... so many times. So simply put: Whitney would have wanted the music to go on."

Vanessa Hudgens took a style cue from Madonna Saturday as she bundled up in black fur for some shopping in Paris.

The actress did some damage at Le Bon Marche and in the boutiques of Saint-Germain de Pres. And we couldn't help but notice she ditched her usual boho style for a more sophisticated look. But does fur really equal sophistication???

Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott have one big, happy family -- Stella, 3; Liam, 4; and McDermott's son from a previous marriage, Jack, 13 -- all enjoyed some lunch and shopping together in Malibu, Saturday.

And just a day before, we caught up with Dean in Beverly Hills and he showed off his tattoo memorials to his kids. Awww!

Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott have one big, happy family -- Stella, 3; Liam, 4; and McDermott's son from a previous marriage, Jack, 13 -- all enjoyed some lunch and shopping together in Malibu, Saturday.

And just a day before, we caught up with Dean in Beverly Hills and he showed off his tattoo memorials to his kids. Awww!

Madonna headed in to the Kabbalah Centre in New York covered in a black fur hat and vest Saturday. She kept her hands warm in Chanel leather glovelettes.

PETA named the animal-unfriendly singer "Worst-Dressed Celeb" in 2009 but that didn't seem to deter the superstar in her fur-wearing ways.

There's an old Kabbalah lesson that says some teachers wear their spirituality like a fur coat -- it warms only them but doesn't spread warmth to others. Kabbalah aims to share spiritual connections outside a believer's circle ... is Madonna spreading the love???

Check out video of Madonna and her kids (with a newly-shorn Lourdes) arriving to the Centre ...